The Feile Division 2B winners
The up and coming U10's
relegated in the senior championship this year, we weren’t a million miles away. We stayed with Cooley for 45 minutes and we led at half-time in the first play-off against Kilkerley. Against Glyde, we started very poorly but we took it to extra time before their bit of extra experience told. Kilkerley and Glyde are big clubs who have been senior for a while and they had more
experience and belief than we had. In contrast, we had been junior for so long that we didn’t have the same belief. Confidence-wise and experience-wise, they had the edge on us, but ability-wise there’s not that much between us.” Simon is joined on the Irelands first team by brothers Peter and Joseph. The three Flynn siblings will be hoping to kick on and push for promotion in both competitions in 2013. Simon also trained the club’s U16s to a league title in 2012 and steered the DYI minors to a ‘C’ championship, with a lot of the same players featuring on both those teams. “When you look at it, we have a lot of young players who came onto the first team this year and we should have more coming through in the next three or four years. I think the club is on an upward spiral. We hope to go for a Division One MFC in a couple of years and if we can bring through the current minors and U16s, we will be stronger. “For the time being, we are still a young team. The likes of Derek Maguire, Peter Nixon, Ciaran Murray and Peter Flynn are all still young lads, but these guys have all played underage for the county and they can backbone the team for many years to come. That’s why I’m confident that Young Irelands is still an up-and-coming team and we took a step forward in 2012 by winning promotion to Division Two.”
Minor board chairman Liam O'Neill presents the U16C Cup to Ryan Malone.
Sean Reid presents the Feile 2B Cup to Dylan Mulligan
Chinedu Osadebe receives the U14 C Cup from Tom Flynn
The U12's
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